Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan doesn't like that Obama uses the government to pick which industries win and which industries lose, and Jon Stewart looked at just why it's a problem last night on The Daily Show. Turns out, it's a philosophical issue. Government money shouldn't be going into specific industries like green energy companies.

So where should money go? You know, technology and science research, Pell grants, infrastructure. Wait, hold on. "That's picking winners and losers!" Stewart said. "Investing in roads, rails, and air traffic is saying yes to cars, trains, and planes but f**k the bicycles. It may be a good decision but it's still picking winners and losers, and the government has always done that."

Every decision government makes picks winners and losers, Stewart said. But maybe Romney and Ryan don't think we should have picked winners and losers in World War II. Stewart goes dark: "Unlike them, I'm glad we beat Hitler."

twistofsin:What kind of emissions problems can you have on electric vehicles?

It was a hybrid, Fisker sourced the motor from GM and did a Volt style thing. What ultimately did Fisker in was they tried to take components optimized for fuel saving and make it performance. An analogy would be if say you owned a Prius and one day went out and bolted the turbocharger off a sports car to the Prius. Bad things would happen. Fisker felt they had the knowledge needed to solve those bad things, they didn't.

/I know some ex GM employees who applied for Fisker and were met with an attitude of "No, no, you're some loser from a Michigan auto company. Use silicon valley folk will solve this." Turns out they actually did need some mechanical engineers with auto experience on staff

So, a company gets money from the Advanced Technologies Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program to develop an advanced technology vehicle and then has the money halted for not meeting milestones. That seems like it is exactly as it is supposed to work.

The state paid to get the plant to locate there. That happens all the time with many industries and is entirely the state's problem.

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